I really am hesitant to do this.... on the Peoria.com Forums

...but I'm backed into a corner.

I know there's animosity here, from the Politics forum, the fight with Christi, etc, but I am in serious trouble.
There's a reason why I've been so prickish and miserable and it all stems from losing my job where I was running the layout dept at my last company.
The reason I got fired was because of that fateful night that we saw my boss downtown with another woman, at MsGem's b-day party. The reason he used was that I was making racist comments around the office. After I got fired, I went to unemployment, which he tried to block, but not only did he have no one to corroborate his story, he cited an incident that had happened 4 months prior, in which a bunch of us were standing outside joking around and a black girl told me I was a balding old man, and I told her that she needed help with her welfare weave. Becasue I HAD witnesses to that, and he didn't, becasue I had never been written up for it, and because it was so long ago, I was approved for Unemployment, whci hI've been getting since the end of September.
In the mantime, I went to work, part time at a company selling advertising again, but in this rotten economy, advertising is the first thing that most business owners are cutting out. In the entire time I've been there, I have yet to gross over $200.00 in a week, which, luckily, keeps me eligible for unemployment, along with the fact that I'm working part time. It's not that I can't sell, completely, but I don't get paid until the ad gets paid for, and no one is using credit cards to pay for ads now.

Also, I have been sending out reumes like a madman, as has bridget been filling out job apps, but no one is hiring. I was at the unemployment office last week and it was jam packed.
2 weeks ago, my ex-boss called unemployment and told them I'm self employed, so they suspeneded me until they can do an investigation, which could take up to a month or more.
I have no idea why he's doing this to me. I never did him wrong. I went to work every day, worked my ass off, brought expenses down, productivity WAY up. I never stole form him, lied to him, talked shit about him, surfed porn on his computers, nothing but was 100% loyal, but because his marriage sucks, and I saw him with another woman, and because he's terrified of me telling her, I'm being treated like this??

Now, I have nothing. The unemployment check I was supposed to get last week was going to pay the rent, but I didn't get one. How do I tell my landlord, where I've lived for a month and a half, who made me promise over and over that I wouldn't have a problem with the rent, that I don't have it? My paycheck was $130.00 last week, and so far, for this week I have $150.00 coming. In the mantime, I have about $10.00 to my name. We have 1/2 a can of formula, we're running out of baby food, have enough chicken to eat dinner for a few days, but otherwise, we have nothing.
I am seriously screwed here. I need help.
We went to apply for food stamps last week, but that'll take a few weeks to kick in, apparently. I truly have no idea where to turn. No one is hiring, her family is useless and the only thing they care about is their Jamaica trip in February. My family is in the same boat back home. My 75 yr old mother had to go back to work, part time!
If, by chance, unemployment full out denies me, which is pretty doubtful, they're going to want the money I have gotten, back, which will nix my tax return.
RentaCenter is ringing my phone off the hook, and if I don't pay them for this week, good bye washer and dryer.
I need a friggin' JOB that I can actually get paid at. Sunday's paper had a whopping 1 whole page in the Jobs section. There is nothing out there. And the jobs that I sent resumes to, even though I followed up, never panned out.
I'm sorry I can be an asshole, but I can't take this shit anymore, and it just wears on me, constantly, and now, I have no clue what to do, at all.

I was a little lost on what you were actually asking for.....is it a job?

Anything....
Mostly a job that I can make enough to feed my family and pay my bills

You don't qualify for WIC? That would take care of the formula and some grocery needs. The women's pregnancy Center will help out w/ diapers. I don't know any specs on that...I know that they will. Did you call the Salvation Army? I know they help out w/ a variety of things. I don't know of a job other than the info. I had given you before.

Yeah, but we had to make an appointment, and I nned to figure out when I can get there. I forgot about that.

i know alotta places are hiring for xmas help . but i cant get hired on sas i havent worked outside the house in about 10 yrs or so .
mikes miles have gone down big time .the loads just arent there right now .  were hopen the new year will pick up for the trucking industry

sometimes on freecycle they offer unused formula ?  its shot ?

Unless something breaks, in the spring when I can afford to get my license back, I'm going back to trucking.

good luck   what do u need to get ur cdl back ?

Can you get your license back for a certain amount of money now? Or do you have to wait a while. It seems to me that that would open up a whole bunch of opportunities if you had your license.

why did u lose ur lic? the trucking companies are getting very picky now on the MVR and dac reports . i hate the dac  its so not right .

There are those places mentioned in that NBC broadcast:

http://www.foremost-fit.com/index.htm

http://www.excelfoundry.com/jobs/employment.php

Also... a long list here:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?jobt y p e =PERM&jobt y p e =CONT&commitment=FT&commitment=PT&locations=61606&country=&industry=&kw=

It's on my blog, why I lost it.

the hippestkat.blogspot.com

Sorry, I'm in the middle of 50 things...

In a nutshell a cop back home pulled me over everytime he saw me and wrote so many bunk speeding tickets, I lost my license, which rolled over into me losing my trucking business, and I just haven't had the money to get it back

If the "so many bunk speeding tickets" were bunk, why didn't you fight them in traffic court? Wouldnt have costed you a penny and they could have been dropped. I've known many people who fought them and had them dropped. Also McDonalds somewhere is always hiring. I know being older and working at McDonalds may seem like a blow to your pride, but not being able to feed my kids would be an even bigger blow to my pride. Work two jobs at fast foods, that are always hiring? I uinderstand you have kids but for awhile wouldnt being able to support them feel good? Even if you dont see them as much? I'm sorry if I don't seem to sympathetic but we almost lost our house due to my husbands job closing and me being fired for a person not liking me. We almost lost everything actually, and I made it through just fine. I'm still working two jobs to this day and we are still behind. No, i'm not saying my problems are bigger, they arent. There is no way to measure peoples problems and ways of handleing them. Although, motivation needs to kick in. Work 3 jobs for awhile?

how convenient to start this crap up again during the xmas season. i think it's pathetic.

grow up and support your family. there is plenty of work out there, maybe it's not the work you want to do, but you need to suck it up and do it anyway. if you need to stay at a shelter for a while until you can get back on your feet, then so be it. if you need to leave your child with a more capable family for a while, then make it happen.

it's so blatantly obvious that you're pulling a con and don't care about anybody but yourself. always aspiring but no real effort to show for it. the partier / freeloader / "struggling artist" image sure is cool. hell i've never met you and i like you, i really do, but i'm not a guppy.

the only sad thing about it is that you will probably be more successful than many other far more deserving people, and that you will step on many of those people to get there.